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Alexa Ross

Alexa represents businesses in contract-related disputes and a variety of other areas, such as confidentiality agreements, non-competition agreements, employee theft, vendor agreements and real estate broker commissions. Alexa also is known nationally for her expertise in charter school law and the law related to educating students with disabilities. She advises and represents major charter-school management companies - Edison Schools, KIPP Schools, and Imagine Schools, and her charter school practice focuses on business-related areas essential to charter school organization and operation, such as federal and state funding, school governance and management, protection from liability for staff actions, and employment matters.

Alexa’s recent representations include winning summary judgment, affirmed by the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, for a timber-industry company sued for more than $3 million in broker commissions; successfully representing a national investment firm in a dispute regarding its former officer’s stealing confidential information to form a competing company; and representing a New York-based litigation management software company in a contractual dispute with one of the world’s largest entertainment industry companies.

Alexa also has significant experience advising and representing school districts and charter schools regarding the law governing educating students with disabilities. She has represented some of the largest and well-known school districts in the state, including Fulton, Rockdale, and Fayette Counties. She served as lead counsel in Mandy S. v. Fulton County School District, 205 F.Supp.2d 1358 (2000), aff’d, 273 F.3d 1114 (11th Cir. (Ga.) Sept. 05, 2001) (Table, No.00-15160).

Alexa served on the Board of Directors of the Georgia Association for Women Lawyers, and her pro bono work includes serving on the Board of Directors of the Coralwood School and Diagnostic Center Foundation and on the Advisory Council of Immaculate Heart of Mary School.